The multifamily sector problem must be quite worrying to Joe the Plumber and Family and Community Banks.

The economy is still in the woods with the various lags and compound multipliers that will only show up in the next 5 years. Politicians have to calm voters, that is their job. Economists have to calm down politicians, that is their job. Mathematicians have to calm down economists, that is their job. Actuaries have to calm down Mathematicians, that is their job. Portfolio Managers and Traders manipulate and apply all this knowledge, that is their job.

Yesterday there were results of two polls, one from economists, one vox populi. I wonder how these correlate ?